Hospitals, doc offices continue to hire

Hospitals added 14,000 workers in May, a 0.3%, increase, even as the nations overall nonfarm employment fell for the fifth straight month, preliminary figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics show. Hospital employment climbed to 4.63 million in May, adding 132,100 jobs in the prior 12 months, an increase of 2.9%. The figures are seasonally adjusted.

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